Mees Solar Observatory (1964) Haleakala Gerard Kuiper& Governor Burns Mauna Kea 1964

View MK à Haleakala

Mauna Kea Observatories Mauna Kea Observatories Adaptive Optics JCMT CSO

Subaru

Keck I & II The Two Keck 10-m Telescopes Gemini North Gemini North Gemini North

TMT on Mauna Kea Haleakala High Altitude Observatory Site Advanced Technology Solar Telescope ATST (Haleakala) $300 million project largest solar telescope in the world 4m off-axis mirror ATST on Haleakala Pan STARRS 1 Project

• 1.8m telescope with 7o sq. FOV • 1.4 gigapixelcamera – Orthogonal transfer array (OTA) to improve seeing • Covers entire sky 20x per yr (4x per filter) • 3.5 year survey Device Inventory 1.4 GigapixelCamera Pan-STARRS Field of View

FoVof normal telescope IfA Instrumentation

IR camera and spectrograph for Subaru 8m telescope (IRCS) Gerry Luppino 8K x 12K CCD Camera

Examples of 2x2 Mosaic Module FPAsbuilt by GLS

• H2RG 2x2 Mosaic Module FPAs • JWST NIRCAM • Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) • CFHT WIRCAM • ESO HAWK-I • Max Planck PANIC

CFHT WIRCAM built by GLS Examples of 2x2 Mosaic Module FPAsbuilt by GLS

• Designed and fabricated by GLS. • Integrated and assembled with SCA installation at TIS in late 2008. JDEM Engineering Development Unit (EDU): 3x6 MOSAIC OF H2RG SCAs

• Working with NASA Goddard JDEM (now WFIRST) team, GLS has designed the SiCfocalplanemosaic array FPA consisting of 18 H2RG SCAsin a 6x3 configuration.

NICI CoronagraphicIR Camera Gemini South

Mauna Kea Infrared Mauna Kea Infrared (Hilo) Gemini 8-meter mirror Sputter Coating Adaptive Optics Sodium D Laser Guide Star AO curvature sensors

Original H-85 DM New H-85 DM M Hawaii’s only snowblower digs out Subaru Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Half way to Space

Mahalo Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

The distributed IfA The distributed IfA

IfA Manoa IfAKula Haleakala

Mauna Kea

IfA Hilo ATST on Haleakala

Pan-STARRS’ 1.4Gigapixel Camera

25 “ Institute for Astronomy ● ~300 staff, 100 scientists, 41 tenure track faculty ● 1000 undergraduate students/yr in Manoa ● 40PhD students ● base facilities distributed over 3 islands Manoa

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